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Racing movie faces hurdles as art, sport and animal rights collide

A Melbourne cinema has canceled plans to screen Ride Like A Girl, a film about the first woman jockey to ride a winner in the Melbourne Cup, after an ABC investigation into racehorse slaughter last month. This comes after activists protested the film’s premiere in September. Rina Wu and Yuhan Zhang report.

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